Caving Swildons Hole
Some interesting vintage caving footage here...
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Mammoth Cave and Chappy Corp. honored
A total of 45 miles of new wire was brought into the cave. Six miles of Mammoth Cave tour routes are now lit with economical, environmentally efficient light.
... more here.
Wakulla Springs
Here's a series of seven clips on Wakulla by Chuck Ford featuring the work of the Woodville Karst Plain Project and the Wakulla Watershed Coalition.
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Group preparing for dive through Wakulla, Leon cave system
This weekend, a monumental dive will take place when McKinlay and fellow diver Jarrod Jablonski embark on a 7-mile, seven-hour underwater exploration, entering at Turner Sink on Saturday and emerging in Wakulla Springs on Sunday.
.. more here.
Saturday, November 03, 2007
‘Holy grail of cavers: Virgil the Turtle’s Greathouse Cave
“It’s obviously glacier created,” Brown said of the cave. “It’s impossible to tell how old the cave actually is. Certainly, the last glacial period, from 10,000 to 1.5 million years ago, had a lot to do with its formation. We think that the clay deposited in the bottom half of the cave may have resulted from sediment that was carried into the cave by glacial melt water. Each band in the clay layer may represent a separate flooding and deposition event. There are a lot of them so this obviously went on for a very long time.
... more here.
Mars caves forged by volcanoes and meteors
The Hawaiian lava cave microbes are particularly fond of those minerals in the caves which are made of rocks that have weathered away by water.
So if there were ever watery times on Mars, lava caves would probably have evidence of them, plus signs of any past life.
... more here.
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Divers find final link in underground aquatic cave system
Via Daytona Beach News Journal Online...
The connection of the Leon Sinks and Wakulla Springs cave systems means the total system is 28 miles long, making it the longest underwater cave in North America.
But the divers' work isn't finished. Now they turn their attention to the south, where they suspect the cave system connects to the Gulf of Mexico about 14 miles south of their southernmost point.
... read more here.
Here's footage from the dive...
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Windy Slope Cave by Dave Riggs
Via podcaver.com: Windy Slope Cave by Dave Riggs.
NSS Convention 2007, Marengo, Indiana
I have many photos. I'll be posting them during the week.
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